Sunday Fun-day: Brunch and Boeuf Bourguignon

Sunday is all about lazy mornings and special meals. It is the kind of day where you can sit on the couch and relax while your meal tends to itself in the oven. Mitch and I started out our Sunday with a lazy brunch of pancakes and mimosas. We realized about 5 minutes before we wanted to cook that we were fresh out of pancake mix, but luckily we found this simple pancake recipe from AllRecipes to fill out the meal. The fluffy piles of goodness are pictured in the featured image.

We worked through the daily chores, laundry, and packing for a little trip while dinner stewed on the stove. I joke that I prepared a meal from the Bible, but really Mastering the Art of French Cooking is a Bible to home chefs like me. Julia Child make cooking in the home a popular and easy to do task. Her 1,000 pg cookbook is home to every sauce, saute, bake, roast, cake, and more you can think of. I am quite partial to her bouef bourguinon with sautéed mushrooms.

I promise- try this recipe. After about 20 minutes of prep, it just sits in the oven for hours getting more and more delectable. I add sautéed mushrooms in at the very end. Child recommends caramelized onions, but I haven’t gotten fancy enough to try that yet.

Bouef Bourguinon

Ingredients:

6ounces bacon

1tablespoon olive oil

3lbs lean stewing beef, cut into 2-inch cubes

1carrot, peeled and sliced

1onion, peeled and sliced

1teaspoon salt

1⁄4teaspoon pepper

2tablespoons flour

3cups red wine (a full bodied wine like Bordeaux or Burgundy or Chianti)